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Abstracted   /ˈæbstrˌæktɪd/   Listen
Abstracted

adjective
1.
Lost in thought; showing preoccupation.  Synonyms: absent, absentminded, scatty.  "An absentminded professor" , "The scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"


Abstract

verb
(past & past part. abstracted; pres. part. abstracting)
1.
Consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically.
2.
Make off with belongings of others.  Synonyms: cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe.
3.
Consider apart from a particular case or instance.
4.
Give an abstract (of).



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"Abstracted" Quotes from Famous Books



... very ancient custom, which the Ptolomies revived in Egypt. At any rate here is the picture of the Family in its patriarchal form, wholly separated from other connections and set apart by itself, on the brass-bound precipitous island. The Family is abstracted from the rest of the world and given ...
— Homer's Odyssey - A Commentary • Denton J. Snider
... is;" and there Peter was, standing in his favourite attitude, his legs wide apart and his thumbs in his armholes, superior, abstracted, motionless till the train stopped, when he ...
— Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers • Ian Maclaren
... of geometrical inquiry are so entirely abstracted from those pursuits which stir up and put in motion the unruly passions of the human heart, that mankind, without difficulty, adopt not only the more simple theorems of the science, but even those abstruse paradoxes which, ...
— The Federalist Papers • Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
... from Dr. Martineau he had parted also from that process of self-exploration that they had started together, but now he awakened to find it established and in full activity in his mind. Something or someone, a sort of etherealized Martineau-Hardy, an abstracted intellectual conscience, was demanding what he thought he was doing with Miss Grammont and whither he thought he was taking her, how he proposed to reconcile the close relationship with her that he was now embarked upon with, in the ...
— The Secret Places of the Heart • H. G. Wells
... have guessed that Jorgenson had heard a single word of that emphatic declaration if he had not addressed himself to Lingard with the question neither more nor less abstracted ...
— The Rescue • Joseph Conrad


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